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My Dad took out PLUS loans to pay for my housing/food when I was in college (most of my tuition was covered by scholarships and student loan-then-Cornell Tradition). It just occurred to me that he declared bankruptcy 5 years after I graduated. Well, my financial plan for the past 20+ years has been “What Would Dad Do? Then Do The Opposite.” The one “good” thing he did was to tell me, before I signed my student loan promissary notes, what it meant to be sure I was aware of the consequences of taking student loans.

Regarding The Devil Wears Prada, I didn’t read the book, but I thought the movie was great, and my wife agreed with the linked piece, that the book was inferior. Much of the book, she said, is the writer/protagonist complaining about things like having to pick up laundry for Miranda, and Miranda is mostly portrayed as the devil in the sense of a mean, evil person. In the movie, Miranda is the devil in the sense of being the temptress, which is a much more subtle understanding of evil and the fall. Also, the movie is a story not just of temptation, but also of growth. If the protagonist finds redemption, it is the postlapsarian redemption of someone who has understood both the appeal and ambiguity of evil, and renounced it knowingly, not the innocent who simply remained in the garden.